Celebrating Purim

Year 3 have been learning about different Jewish festivals in our RE lessons. To help us learn about the festival of Purim, we watched a video to find out the different ways Jewish children prepared for the celebration. Their preparations included choosing fancy dress...
Drama in Year 3!

Drama in Year 3!

Today, Year 3 had fun doing Drama in our English lesson. In preparation for our writing activity, we acted the story of Four Sticky Little Boys from Roald Dahl’s The Twits. We thought about how each character would move, think, behave and speak. Here we are showing...
Stone Age Art

Stone Age Art

In history we are learning about the Stone Age. We explored a range of photographs of Stone Age cave paintings and discussed the things that we could see and what they told us about people living in the Stone Age. We learned that during the Stone Age, people would...
Mehndi artist – Jyoti Chheda

Mehndi artist – Jyoti Chheda

Year 3 – Indian Art As part of our topic on Indian Art, Year 3 studied the work of Jyoti Chheda. We learnt how she uses henna to paint intricate mehndi patterns onto the skin, particularly for wedding ceremonies and festivals. We explored her style, themes and...
Indian Art

Indian Art

In Year 3 this term we are learning about art from India. We started our topic by looking at a range of Indian art across history. We discussed what we liked and disliked, thinking about the formal elements of art: colour, tone, pattern, texture, line, composition,...